Show SAVE BUSHELS OF WHEAT THAT FORMERLY WAS LOST IN TH THRESHING warmers Carmen Urged by Food Administration tion Provide r Seven Extra Loaves Leave of Bread for Every American By ny adopting cleaner threshing methods methods meth meth- OIls and by literally combing harvest harvet hells fields to tc gather grain formerly wasted wasted wast ed 1 and und farmers of the United States tills this year rear saved savell fully tully bushels of wheat estimated ns as equivalent to about seven pound one-pound loaves loa of bread for every very person person In Inthe Inthe inthe the country This result accompanied by corr corresponding savings of barley oats ont rye and other grains Is shown by from 33 grain states to the U U. U 3 8 I. I Food Administration Isn states although not prepared to furnish definite dell dell- nite fI figures ures of conservation in 10 the grain fields report greatly reduced harvest losses T This ls rural food saving achievement 1 accomplished In scarcely six lx months months' time was was in direct response to requests re re- quests by the Food Administration which asked farmers farmen arid and to reduce harvest hanest losses from about 4 3 per cent the the the estimated average In normal times times to to the lowest possible possible ble minimums minimum Country grain threshing thresh ing committees carried Into every grain growing community the official recommendations for tor accomplishing the results desired In numerous instances Instance drivers driven of racks with le leaky ky bottoms bottom were sent from the fields fields to to repair their equip equipment ment and frequently bad order threshing thresh ing machines were stopped until the cause of w waste was removed Dot But In proportion to the number of persons persona engaged In gathering the he nations nation's grain crop eases uses of compulsion were comparatively com com- comparatively rare The Food Administration Adminis freely treely attributes attribute the success of the grain threshing campaign to patriotic pa 8 triode service by farmers men Dlen and their crews Incidentally grain growers of ot the United States are many muttons of ot dollars In n packet as a result of f the grain saved I |